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Monday, April 2, 2012

Table It!...Part 18...AutoFit

Again...When your cursor is in a table and you right-click, the pop-up menu that appears includes table related options. The last two options in the group we've been looking at are Borders and Shading... and AutoFit.

Select AutoFit to contents if you want the width of a
column governed by its contents. For example, a column with three characters in
it will be narrower than a column with ten characters.

Select AutoFit to window if you want a table that has
equal columns spaced across the width of the page. In addition, you can make
adjustments on the fly.

Select Fixed column width if you want the
table to resize itself in relation to the margins; that is, the entire width
of the page. You can set the width using the up and down arrows to create a
table that isn't as wide; that is, it doesn't go margin to margin. In addition,
you can make adjustments on the fly

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